The Internet vs. Fascist America

One kind of story that arrives at the Digg.com frontpage over and over again is the “America is going fascist”-story, either in form of an article or a video of police abusing their powers. We all remember the dont-taze-me-bro-video, and Naomi Wolfs article on making USA fascist in ten easy steps is widely read.

It’s hard to say that USA today is fascist, but it’s not hard for anyone to see that the country is going in the wrong direction when it comes to the rights of its citizens.

Of course, the Internet isn’t too happy about fascism, and it is putting up a fight. Raising public awareness about the subject seems kind of hard, because the people warning about fascism are looked upon as total nutcases. And to be honest, that’s not something anyone should find surprising seeing that they claim the government of USA is corrupt enough to have orchestrated 911, but there really is no excuse for not being pro civil rights.

And while raising quite a controverse, the movies Zeitgeist, America:From Freedom to Fascism and Loose Change all have valid points.

Now the latest incident is the get-arrested-for-dancing-at-Thomas-Jefferson’s-memorial-incident, where a woman were arrested simply because she celebrated Jefferson’s birthday at his memorial. Arrested. For dancing. At the memorial of Thomas Jefferson. The irony is just overwhelming.

But this is just the latest event, and I’m glad the Internet and the blogosphere is taking action. This incident wouldn’t get the attention it deserves if it wasn’t for the Internet.

But how valuable is this attention really? No one seems to be doing anything about this, even though everyone is agreeing that it’s wrong. Personally, I’m from Europe, and sometimes I wonder if it’s just Anti-American Europeans who care about the situation in USA.

Will the attention from the Internet be enough by itself to stop the development?

Net Neutrality is a Load of Bollocks

The new Virgin Media CEO, Neil Berkett, just made his company lose a few customers by attending an interview. You can read the full story at DigitalSpy.

In an interview with the Royal Television Society’s Television magazine, Berkett said that “this net neutrality thing is a load of b****cks”, and revealed that Virgin is already in talks with unnamed content providers about paying to have their content delivered faster than others.

This could develop into a huge net protest with boycotts and the like. TorrentFreak has an article about it, so it’s bound to reach digg.com in a couple of hours.

Comcast really hit the wall when blocking BitTorrent-traffic almost a year ago.

Help this hit the fan by digging it

Rape is Like Being Force-Fed Chocolate Cake

“Rape is simply sex (I am talking about ‘husband-rape’ here)… Women enjoy sex, so rape cannot be such a terrible physical ordeal…To suggest that rape, when conducted without violence, is a serious crime is like suggesting force-feeding a woman chocolate cake is a heinous offence.”

This is the word of a blogger, more specifically Nick Eriksen, who’s was a senior BNP official until he got sackedbecause of this quote. BNP is a far right political party in England..

In his blog, Sir John Bull – as he calls himself – feels harassed and has suspended the blog so that it can no longer be used to “damage the only party which has sensible, fair and practical answers to the problems Britain faces today.” He claims the quote is out of context, but all blog post are deleted, so there is no way to verify it.

Also, making this a discussion about Nick Eriksen and his party, is, “not acceptable and will not be tolerated.” I have to wonder what he’ll do next.

The userbase at digg.com is mad at him, but I’m not sure if this will develop into anything.